French frogs

Phil this is for you a twin chick from 1 egg!
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I cannot get video to play...I try everything and cannot get them to play...I might go later on my laptop and try.thanks for thinking of me though Benny.

But the coolest gift is the welding equipment my parents got my brothers and I
I love welding...I have all my welders home and my plasma cutter too.
Just no garage to use them. I might build a welding shed here in the spring...have fun with them Dan.
 
I thought I had quoted Walnut too about the pullet eggs/double yolkers....I'm on my phone and pics are hard enough to load, not going to try to figure out how to add her quote...
That's true, too... just like trying to hatch bantams and lf together... plus it's harder to regulate proper humidity for both in same bator...

X2 on the double yolkers... I won't ever set those...

I have 2 hens and 1 pullet laying. The last week I've gotten 3 monster size eggs (for a silkie). I didn't even think about double yolkers. I set 2 and gave one away with some other hatching eggs. I didn't candle them first. One is developing. It's a very transparent shell, so cool to candle, looks normal. The other one must have started but now just has a red circle around the yolk. Can you tell double yolkers just by candling before set?
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The dark circle on the egg is just my "O" for turning purposes. But those big eggs were almost twice as big as what I've been normally getting. Even for the hens. I wonder if it because I switched to layer feed?
Last lockdown of 2015 underway...8 eggs from my fancy EEs.  I popped them in a Brinsea 20 just for fun.  Should be hatching on the 28th!

Awesome!! Good luck. I lockdown on the 28th. :fl for both of us!
 
I thought I had quoted Walnut too about the pullet eggs/double yolkers....I'm on my phone and pics are hard enough to load, not going to try to figure out how to add her quote...
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On an obscure egg shell, it may not be possible to detect a double yolker. But with a translucent shell and a good light, you can readily see two yolk shadows, and if you've started incubation, you will see two dark spots and two sets of blood vessels.

They will never be "identical twins" as two eggs and two sperm are involved. I had a turkey egg go full term with twins but since I wasn't home to to a full on assist I lost them.
 
I have set pullet eggs before with good success. At least 5 are laying, and the ones that have been laying a few weeks are about 3/4 size and well rounded. The newer layers are smaller and more pointed, but I would be comfortable setting the more normal sized ones if I had enough
 

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